C Mixolydian Bebop — Chicago Tuning Banjo

C Mixolydian Bebop is 8 notes to the octave (bebop family), drawn here across the Chicago Tuning Banjo's DGBE strings with every C marked, so home stays visible from anywhere in the pattern.

Mixolydian with a passing major 7th between the b7 and the octave — the bright, bluesy dominant sound with a chromatic slide that keeps every chord tone on a downbeat. Slick, swinging, and quintessentially bebop.

Heard in: Jazz lines over dominant seventh chords, blues changes, and rhythm changes — the workhorse bebop scale.

Because these four strings are the guitar's top four, patterns a guitarist already owns land here unchanged. The work is rhythmic rather than geographical: making the pick articulate every note the head refuses to sustain.

Run it against a click at a tempo where every note gets the same weight. On a banjo an uneven scale is audible immediately — the instrument gives you no sustain to hide behind.